> Hello,
>
> whe have lines in our ldap db that are longer then 80 characters.
> When I search them with ldaspsearch and redirect them to a file with >,
> then newlines are added after the 78th character.
>
> This is a problem, because other tools don't like lines that are
> splittet up ( in this case oranames )
>
> Is there a way to change this behaviour of ldapsearch or is there a way
> to tell ldapsearch that the lines can be longer, say 200 columns ?
Short: no, no. ldapsearch(1) writes output according to LDIF1 (RFC2849)
which, according to note (2) allows folding values at any char; ldapsearch
chooses colum 78 as the last one. You may unfold values by using an
appropriate postprocessing of ldapsearch output, e.g. an awk script
like
/^dn: / {
prev = $0;
while ($1 != "") {
getline;
if (substr($0,1,1) == " ") {
prev = prev substr($0,2,length($0)-1);
} else {
print prev;
prev = $0;
}
}
print "";
}
p.
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Pierangelo Masarati
mailto:pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it